Which of the following defense mechanisms is a threatening or an unacceptable impulse channeled or redirected from its original source to a nonthreatening target?

A. Projection
B. Repression
C. Sublimation
D. Displacement

Answer: D

Psychology

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a. operant conditioning b. cognitive learning c. vicarious learning d. classical conditioning

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